Tuesday July 11, 2006 Eudora Postfix Relay Error
Ran into an interesting problem try to get Eudora to send mail via the Postfix SMTP server. The server kept rejecting all attempts to send with relay errors, but only from Eudora. I could send mail from Mozilla Thunderbird just fine.
A quick look at the /var/log/maillog show the problem:
SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
Looks like Postfix was never setup to do CRAM-MD5 properly. If I had a lot of time, I could fix the server, but I needed to get Eudora working quickly. If Thunderbird could do it, there had to be a way for Eudora to send.
I finally solved the problem by editing eudora.ini. Search for this line:
SmtpAuthAllowed=1
Then add the following line below it:
SMTPAuthBanished=CRAM-MD5
Do that everwhere that you find SmtpAuthAllowed (or at least for the appropriate Eudora personality if you know how those work). Once I did that, I could send without errors.
Posted by rickg ( Jul 11 2006, 04:50:05 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]